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  • RE: What is Normal?

    Charles Kincaid (11/20/2016)


    I do have a slight case for denormalization. I want to have an unchangeable representation of something historical. Where did we ship that order and to...

  • RE: Managing SQL Server with PowerShell

    m mcdonald (11/28/2016)


    Interesting...

    This article https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh231286.aspx

    updated 8/1/16 does not indicate the deprecation and states

    Use the Import-Module cmdlet to import the sqlps module. Specify the DisableNameChecking parameter if you want to suppress...

  • RE: Automatic Seeding

    Nice question. And it's really nice to see "automatic" actually meaning "automatic, you don't have to mess around doing things it happens automatically once you've set it to automatic"...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Eirikur Eiriksson (11/24/2016)


    But then again, going out for Caffè in London is like going for a Pub in NYC, futile exercise

    Well, my experience suggests there's plenty of good Caffè in...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I find it quite amazing how much variety their is on things like food and drink are treated by companies, and there are sometimes big differences even within one company....

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Brandie Tarvin (11/23/2016)


    Manic Star (11/23/2016)


    Luis Cazares (11/23/2016)


    Brandie Tarvin (11/23/2016)


    Pie!

    Apple

    Pecan (Prounounced Pee-Can)

    Pecan (Pronunciation corrected to Pah-khan) @=)

    Pacane (Spelling corrected; if you really pronounce it like that it's French, probably Louisiana...

  • RE: Thanksgiving

    Quite a fun question.

    I'm somewhat amazed that up to now about a fifth of people answering seem to believe that the result of dateadd is an integer rather than a...

  • RE: Share the Interesting Work

    Interesting editorial, I agree with it although I've never been in a situation where newcomers were just landed with the boring stuff so that's not something I've had to struggle...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    BWFC (11/18/2016)[hrI wrote steak because I was so excited about the steaks that are arriving tomorrow I got carried away. I think on reflection you're right that it would...

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (11/18/2016)


    TomThomson (11/17/2016)


    GilaMonster (11/16/2016)


    Lynn Pettis (11/16/2016)


    Question, any way to get these keynotes to view later? I would like to share these with others here at work. Plus, I...

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Revenant (11/22/2016)


    Luis Cazares (11/22/2016)


    djj (11/22/2016)


    Ed Wagner (11/22/2016)


    patrick.w.wheeler (11/22/2016)


    Ed Wagner (11/22/2016)


    Manic Star (11/22/2016)


    djj (11/22/2016)


    Sleep

    Dream

    REM

    Stand

    Stephen King

    Fiction

    Science

    Art

    Craft

  • RE: Find the brackets

    Jeff Moden (11/17/2016)


    Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (11/17/2016)


    Another cause of disparity are scalar functions, which the execution plan appears to ignore completely.

    Agreed. In fact, those little beasties can be downright troublesome...

  • RE: How to Make Scalar UDFs Run Faster (SQL Spackle)

    I read this again because I saw Jeff's reference to it in the "Find the Brackets" QotD discussion, and seeing that the measurements were all run on a fairly ancient...

  • RE: Temp tables in transaction

    Nice question. And I like that simple rule of thumb.

    Managed to get it wrong by clicking as I pushed the mouse up the screen and timed the click wrong....

  • RE: A Joke Come True

    I suppose it was inevitable that this editorial would trigger off an Apple fanboy to tell us that Microsoft is a waste of space and Apple has the only useful...

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